Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is comprised of twelve volunteer members (nine elected, and three appointed), drawn from the CRKN membership. Details on Board composition, powers and operation may be found in the CRKN By-laws.
Journal Usage Project
The Journal Usage Project extends the research initially conducted by Dr. Vincent Larivière at the Université de Montréal and with three other universities in Quebec that examined the impact on libraries of the consolidation of journal publishing and the development of what is known in the industry as the “big deal”. The extension of the research on a national scale offers individual institutions insight into usage, citations, and faculty perceptions of journal value. It also affords the opportunity for some analysis of the data across CRKN member universities.
Support for Coalition Publica through the CRKN-Érudit Partnership
Since 2014, Érudit and CRKN members have worked to create a collaborative partnership, one which creates a framework for a new relationship between journals and libraries, and helps to provide financial support to Canadian journals during the transition to a fully open access model.
Journal Value Analytics
As part of our commitment to making evidence-based licensing decisions and developing data-driven strategies for our content licensing program, we are evolving CRKN’s data gathering and analysis capacity in 2020. CRKN has launched a consortia-wide subscription to Unsub, a new, more robust and interactive journal analytics tool, which replaces the JVA tool.
2015 AGM, Ottawa
The CRKN/CARL 2015 meetings took place at the Ottawa Marriott Hotel on October 20-22, 2015.
Knowledge Base Entitlements Sub-Committee
The purpose of the Knowledge Base Entitlements Sub-Committee (KBESC, formerly the Serials Management Sub-Committee) is to plan and complete work to customize vendor-supplied title lists to accurately reflect CRKN entitlements. These lists are supplied to link resolvers to create CRKN specific targets in the knowledge base.
Content Strategy Committee
The purpose of the CRKN Content Strategy Committee (CSC) is to assist the Board of Directors in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities by reviewing and making recommendations to the Board regarding the overall direction of the CRKN content program.
CSC meeting recaps are in the member documents section below. Please login to view them.
Finance and Audit Committee
The purpose of the Finance and Audit Committee is to assist the Board in fulfilling its oversight responsibilities by monitoring and making recommendations respecting the sufficiency, transparency, and integrity of the organization’s financial health and sustainability. The committee will also monitor and review the effectiveness of CRKN internal controls, risk management activities and the conduct of the independent audit process.
Executive Committee
The purpose of the Executive Committee is to advance actions on Board decisions between regularly scheduled meetings, oversee the administrative and HR requirements of CRKN, as well as to provide oversight of governance, succession planning and nomination processes for the organization.
SCOAP³
SCOAP³ (Sponsoring Consortium for Open Access in Particle Physics Publishing) is an international open access initiative that was officially launched on January 1, 2014. Convened at CERN in Switzerland, this is the largest scale global open access initiative ever built, involving an international collaboration of over one thousand libraries, library consortia and research organizations. SCOAP³ enjoys the support of funding agencies and has been established in co-operation with leading publishers. Eleven publishers of high quality international journals are participating in SCOAP³. Elsevier, Institute of Physics, and Springer, together with their publishing partners, have been working with the network of SCOAP³ national contact points. Reductions in subscription fees for thousands of participating libraries worldwide have been arranged, making funds available for libraries to support SCOAP³.
CRKN members fully participate in this international initiative, supporting the project through redirection of subscription fees. CRKN coordinates Canada’s contribution and is the signatory for Canada’s participation in the SCOAP3 initiative. This provides CRKN with a seat at the Governing Council table.
For more information about the project, please contact info@crkn.ca.